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  • All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

    All Too Human by Moland, Lydia L.;

    Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

    Series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life; 7;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st ed. 2018
    • Publisher Springer International Publishing
    • Date of Publication 7 September 2018
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783319913308
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages198 pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Weight 489 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XI, 198 p. 4 illus. Illustrations, black & white
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    "This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s ""Tristram Shandy"" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period. Through differentiating humor from comedy, the book suggests important distinctions within the aesthetic philosophies of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Solger, and Jean Paul Richter. The book links Kant’s underdeveloped incongruity theory of laughter to Schopenhauer’s more complete account and identifies humor’s place in the pessimistic philosophy of Julius Bahnsen. It considers how caricature functioned at the intersection of politics, aesthetics, and ethics in Karl Rosenkranz’s work, and how Kierkegaard and Nietzsche made humor central not only to their philosophical content but also to its style. The book concludes with an explication of French philosopher Henri Bergson’s claim that laughter is a response to mechanical inelasticity.

    Is the only book dealing with philosophies of humor, comedy, and laughter in the 19th Century

    Helps distinguish among aesthetic categories such as humor, comedy, laughter, irony, wit, and satire

    Considers compelling and under-researched questions in the dynamic history of 19th Century philosophy

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    Table of Contents:

    Chapter 1. Introduction (Lydia Moland).- Chapter 2. The Ends of Art: Hegel on Comedy and Humor from Aristophanes to Jean Paul (Lydia Moland).- Chapter 3. Schlegel on Humor and Comedy (Katia Hay).- Chapter 4. Jean Paul on Humor (William Coker).- Chapter 5. Caricature, Philosophy and the Aesthetics of the Ugly: Some Questions for Rosenkranz (Allen Speight).- Chapter 6. Humor as Redemption in the Pessimistic Philosophy of Julius Bahnsen (Frederick Beiser).- Chapter 7. Schopenhauer’s Incongruity Theory of Humor (Robert Wicks).- Chapter 8. ‘What Time Is It?....Eternity’: Kierkegaard’s Socratic Use of Hegel’s Insights on Romantic Humor (Marcia Robinson).- Chapter 9. Jest as Humility: Kierkegaard and the Possibility of Virtue (John Lippitt).- Chapter 10. The Divine Hanswurst: Nietzsche on Laughter and Comedy (Matthew Meyer).- Chapter 11. Bergson’s On Laughter (Keith Ansell-Pearson).

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